The nanny state never gets rolled back, so sorry folks, this is only an "In" list.

For example, the government shutdown (along with Obamacare) was the big political story of the year, but in the new bipartisan budget agreement, even the mandatory sequester cuts -- the only chance to roll anything back -- were eliminated.

So, here are some new governmental outrages I've accumulated, in no particular order. They're primarily federal government-based, but I would agree that items like
Bloomberg's big soda ban attempt belong.

(6) Impatient states don't want to wait for the FDA to regulate water-vapor-only emitting e-cigarettes. London deems them "medicines"; And the French ban them in public places. The French are also about to require Uber car rides to wait 15 minutes before picking up a passenger, to protect entrenched entrants. France gets picked on a lot but the French get the government they deserve too. I can say that without chauvinism being of French descent myself.

(8) One wouldn't know from lists like this one, but it's supposed to be hard to make law; there aren't supposed to be that many. But disdainful of Congress and the separation of powers doctrine elemental to the Constitution, President Obama and those surrounding him recognize few if any limits on executive power. So: there's even an executive order directing the government to "prepare for global warming."

(9) As part of the American Panopticon excesses exposed by Edward Snowden but warned of long, long before he came along, TSA is now screening you long before you ever get to the airport, via a slew of government databases. Government has never been in the privacy business, and has never needed to try to pretend to protect it; it just needs to allow it.